Nick Gasparro

Mentalist and magician Nick Gasparro has spent more than two decades reading people and bending reality across Chicago's western suburbs, working close-up and walk-around rather than from a stage. He learned from Eugene Burger, whose philosophy that magic is about the human experience of wonder shaped his entire approach, and he builds on the psychology of influence: body language, questions that feel impossibly precise, and the impression that he knows things he has no business knowing.

Guests are pulled into the moment as he appears to access thoughts and predict decisions, and rooms are left buzzing. Gasparro has performed at hundreds of events across the Chicago area — corporate cocktail hours in the Loop, rehearsal dinners in Oak Brook, holiday parties in Naperville, fundraisers in Hinsdale — alongside public shows at Hanover Park Library and Book Bar in Mokena.